[AR] Re: Centaur (was Re: Re: Human Rated Hydrogen Tanks...)

  • From: Henry Spencer <hspencer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Arocket List <arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2019 01:07:08 -0400 (EDT)

On Tue, 2 Jul 2019, Henry Spencer wrote:

...that particular problem was understood well enough that it didn't recur.

P.S. I believe that problem had no particular connection with the sidewall thickness -- the thicker walls and some other changes came out of general caution, since after the first flight failed, it was politically very important that the second should succeed. Questions of performance were temporarily very much secondary.

Henry

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